In the Saleroom: Andy Warhol's Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable), 1962

<p>In a sales week that will be remembered as "the season of Warhols", Christie&rsquo;s led the auction market, achieving the top price for Andy Warhol&rsquo;s hand-painted masterpiece, <em>Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable)</em>, 1962, which sold for $23,882,500 at the 10 November Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York. At six feet high, the painting is one of the largest examples of Warhol&rsquo;s most famous and beloved images of a Campbell&rsquo;s soup can. It was offered from the renowned collection of the Seattle collector Barney A. Ebsworth, who has owned it since 1987. (RT: 2:28)</p>